Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle vs Floating Fern

Anostirus castaneus compared with Salvinia natans

Key Differences

• Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle is Least Concern while Floating Fern is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Floating Fern
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Arthropoda (Arthropods)	Tracheophyta
Class	Insecta (Insects)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Coleoptera (Beetles)	Salviniales (Salviniales)
Family	Elateridae	Salviniaceae
Genus	Anostirus	Salvinia
Species	Anostirus castaneus	Salvinia natans

Conservation Status

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

LC — Least Concern

Floating Fern

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Floating Fern
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Floating Fern

Habitat

Typically found in moist, shaded forest floors and tropical canopies.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (4 countries), Europe (9 countries), North America (Honduras), and Oceania and the Pacific (Australia).

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

The Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle (Anostirus castaneus) is a species in the genus Anostirus. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 3 countries:

🇧🇪 Belgium 🇳🇴 Norway 🇸🇪 Sweden